30 Mar 2009

Today, it's the first day of the fourth month of learning English. I was late for my course. When I arrived, the teacher told me that we will see THE MOVIE 'Let him him have it'. We tlaked about it last month, after I decided to write about death penalty. I was excited to see that film, a British one based on a true story of a young boy who was hanged for a crime that he didn't commit. I was overwhelmed by the good play of the actors.


1- I Have revised 'quantifiers, determiners and quantifiers' in the Advanced Grammar in Use (second edition) p.88 to 102:

After the writings that I have done during three months of General English, I remarked that I'm still commiting mistakes related to pronouns so I decided to revise this lesson in a grammar book. The lessons are clearly explained with examples, however the amount of information and cases for each pronoun makes it difficult to memorise all examples. I was looking for the relation between these pronouns and the countable and uncountable nouns but my disturbance wasn't corrected.

New expressions:
hardly any
a grat deal of
far too much
every now and again

2- I have listened to ' IELTS specimen listening test 1992':

It's a tape contaning the listening test of IELTS which consists of four sections. In each section you have to listen to the speaker and answer the questions. I was interested on that because I want to take the Ielts exam later and I want to know how it takes place.
I was hearing that the test was fast and you don't have enough time to answer the questions, but I remarked that they give the candidate some time to read the questions before listening to the speaker and also to revise the answers at the end.

3- I have read 'introducing buddhism' of Chris Pauling.

4- I have read some pages from 'String of blue beads'.

09 Mar 2009

New words: hackney, lead, muffle, redden, seize, toss, sway, cross (adj), dismay, swoon, yell, sobs,

New expression: for God's sake, turning on his heel